be abandoned
Example Sentences
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On that basis, earlier this year 27 MPs and peers called in a letter for the £100m initiative to be abandoned.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026
Researchers stress that these hybrid bees are not completely free of mites, and current management practices should not be abandoned.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
Others are concerned the turbines might be abandoned, leaving them with ocean “tombstones.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
"We want to go home, but if we go home without money, then what? We've been working ourselves to the bone out at sea. How can we just be abandoned like that?"
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
By the next morning, it had to be abandoned.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
